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Google Pays $350M Settlement Over The Google+ Privacy Scandal


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Alphabet (GOOG) agreed to settle $350M with shareholders to end claims over the Google+ security problems, which led to the massive exposure of users' private data. In October 2018, The Wall Street Journal revealed that in March of the same year, Google found a flaw in its Google+ social network that exposed users' personal data to third parties. Between 2015 and March 2018, a glitch in Google+'s software allowed outside developers to access the personal profile data of users who hadn't chosen to share it publicly.

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